Harrowing Video Montage Of Egypt Protests From The Streets Of Cairo (VIDEO)

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Despite the attempt by the Egyptian government to shut down the Internet throughout the country, a a harrowing video montage of home video from the chaotic streets of Cairo. has surfaced on YouTube

The protests began on Tuesday, January 25, when thousands of people blocked the streets to sound off about unemployment, government corruption, and the autocratic rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in office for thirty years.

The protests were inspired, in part, by the recent uprising in Tunisia, which began because of widespread anger over corruption and unemployment and ended with the ousting of president and strongman Zine El Abidine Ben Ali.

The video was created by Tamer Shaaban, described on YouTube as "another Egyptian who's had enough."

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Comments

[DerekJon Flagge]

01:41 AM on 02/04/2011

I love this video, I have talked to one of the people who knows Tamer and he is also a great guy. They both did this to promote this protest and it worked! I made my own video thats getting submitted around youtube as well, check it out and most importantly Win this battle Egypt!!! YOU DESERVE FREEDOM!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KoElYqYZsaU

[Muslimerican 1]

11:25 PM on 01/30/2011

Great montage! I just finished one of my own last night; please watch and let me know if you like it!

From Tunis to Cairo: The Power of an Idea: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2hllGRlV4nU

[RichardinJax]

08:33 PM on 01/30/2011

Folks..it is 1776 in Egypt...God bless them as He did us!

[gawd]

09:16 PM on 01/30/2011

Its amazing isn't it??? This is their 1776 and we are watching it! Crazy times we live in.

[themodernleader]

08:00 PM on 01/30/2011

    It is highly improbable that a representative democracy will result from running  some dictator-for-life out of the country.  The reason is obvious.  Representative government requires democrats.  Democrats are citizens who trust one another; who understand that the best decisions come from the best, unfilitered ideas of every citizen;  who believe in economic, social and racial justice; who have had some practice in decision making in their private and public lives; who believe deeply in self government and the rule of law; who possess personal integrity, virtue, honor and fidelity to the Constitution they represent.
   The rabble and self-interested, greedy-for- power and wealth of the leadership of the mobs of Cairo will not produce a great democratic leader although a leader may arise that establishes a more fair and promising economic, financial system then now exists.  The Egyptian masses desire opportunity and equality.  Fairly distributed opportunity would allow decision making/decision advising that gradually forms a great nation.  Great leadership does not result from the birth of great men.  Leadership results from the common practice of deciding individual and group affairs through working purposefully and deciding.  Great leadership comes together under the framework of a carefully formulated mission statement and set of policies and procedures that can not easily be manipulated or altered.  Great leadership is a process that is earned through growth and development of the membership of the organization. 
  Out of the ashes of dictatorial rule,  competent administration is hard to come by.  Great leadership is a virtual unknown unless a prudent, virtuous leader was ablet to become CEO and began a simulated representative process that gradually became genuine as the people developed.

[RichardinJax]

08:40 PM on 01/30/2011

You say:

"Out of the ashes of dictatoria­l rule, competent administra­tion is hard to come by."

I thought some folks were successful at that in 1776? No?

[RichardinJax]

09:16 PM on 01/30/2011

Some other folks did OK in1789..oui?

[themodernleader]

11:11 PM on 01/30/2011

    The American Revolution was a happy union of conditions and events coming together all at once.  The revolutionary leaders were the democratic colonial leaders who had gained modern leadership experience conquering a frontier.  They saw the growth and development of leadership under their command. A renaisssance of new administrative ideas about knowledge, the affairs of governance and mankind came together in Europe in names such as Voltaire, Locke, Gibbons, Hume and Adam Smith and ,of course, Thomas Paine as an arrogant, incompetent monarchy in England and elsewhere lit the fuse of revolution in the American colonies.
   Even then there was a strong desire to establish an American monarchy after the war.  George Washington put a stop to that movement as he and an elite group of men of action who were also men of words framed the Constitution, the most nearly perfect document for framing and managing an organization into perpetuity.
  Hearbreakingly, the Constitution is damaged and torn irreparabily.  No document, however perfect, can endure under the rule of leaders who embody faith only in their own stars and their own self-interests rather than faith in America.

[polishlogician]

06:33 PM on 01/30/2011

When you boil the figures down to hard news, the chasm between the media's fetishising of Iran and their cool disinterest in Egypt yawns even wider.

In June 2009 -- the month when disputed Iranian elections brought thousands of anti-government protesters into conflict with riot police and left blood running through the streets -- Iran was featured in 742 articles.

In April 2008 -- the month when an attempted Egyptian general strike brought thousands of anti-government protesters into conflict with riot police and left blood running through the streets -- Egypt made an appearance in 28 pieces, almost none of which mentioned Mahalla (the town at the heart of the unrest).

http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/the-staggers/2010/01/western-media-egypt-iran

[wannabesmart]

04:04 PM on 01/30/2011

Remember the 60's anyone? Brings back lots of memories, when issues were discussed in this manner in the US. Now the courage is no more. Lots of talk no action. Progressives are a non factor. Corporations rule these days. The Supreme Court says so. There would be and has been much more death on our soil. Movements are so infiltrated these days in US, the padrones are able to stop things before they pick up any steam, this is democracy? I say careful what you pray for Egypt. Theres something going on other then what we see on You Tube. Power to the undetected.

[RichardinJax]

08:14 PM on 01/30/2011

I think you a defeatist. And, most folks get what is going on here without you elucidation.

[uniquindividual]

01:31 PM on 01/30/2011

Where are the women?

[Retrofuturistic]

01:51 PM on 01/30/2011

I was wondering that too. Is revolution exclusive to men?

[FosterMom]

03:52 PM on 01/30/2011

They are out during the day. Although this video montage doesn't show a lot, there are many women seen during daylight hours on footage compiled by news outlets. The video is primarily filmed at night, when women tend to stay in because of the danger.

[RichardinJax]

09:18 PM on 01/30/2011

In the context you use the word..it is "wimmin"

[TxSunDevil]

01:17 PM on 01/30/2011

That JFK quote gave me chills.

[thestargazer]

01:10 PM on 01/30/2011

The billions that the U.S. spends supporting garbage regimes such as this one would be better spent supporting our own!

[RichardinJax]

08:47 PM on 01/30/2011

Yup!....................The problem is ..everybody knows that and nobody WANTS to do anything about it.

[laaambchop]

12:39 PM on 01/30/2011

"Me and my children, I will die today"

buh bye Mubarek

[Ex Marine]

12:19 PM on 01/30/2011

"The protests began on Tuesday, January 25, when thousands of people blocked the streets to sound off about unemployment, government corruption, and the autocratic rule of President Hosni Mubarak, who has been in office for thirty years".

I wonder how long it will take the people in America to get fed up and unite in such a way that we too can slap our government upside the head and say enough!
Our politicians and media have masterfully over the years separated us with contrived, divisive issues and sedated us with pop culture.
I am not suggesting the overthrow of government, but I think we just aren't mad enough and need to make it known.
Instead of people on the left and right standing behind their pundits and pols we need to get out in front of them and lead them. They need to know that we are only asking that they manage our affairs in a way that serves us and not themselves.
I feel that the one root issue that would solve so many of our problems with government is campaign finance reform.
Until it is not lucrative to be a politician, we will not get good governance. It should be illegal for politicians to take money from corporations and PAC's.
If we took care of that, so many other things would fall into place.
You can count the non millionaires in congress on one hand. You should at minimum send your rep's a letter asking for this.

[Astrazoic]

11:30 AM on 01/30/2011

Wow. Even a plug for atheists :)

[VeggieLove]

05:51 PM on 01/30/2011

I was quite impressed by that, too.

[RichardinJax]

08:43 PM on 01/30/2011

It was not a plug..it was a statement of inclusiveness. That man was pointing that difference between a religious argument and one of pure freedom. He was "plugging" decency and humanity.

[Pakistan Rocks]

11:12 AM on 01/30/2011

My heart goes out to these Eyptians. No jobs, no food, no freedom, no present, no future and a dictator not interested in improving the situation for his people. Rather was shaping his son up to inherit his "throne" in few years. Of course people were going to take a stand. I hope it remains peaceful tho. 100 lives lost so far. Sad.

[BLW6801]

10:28 AM on 01/30/2011

I just can't figure it all out.
Who are the good guy and who are the bad?
Do they want freedom from Religion?

[FosterMom]

10:39 AM on 01/30/2011

They want freedom from a tyrant. Freedom from a dictator that gets $1.3 B in U.S. aid annually, while (even degree-holding citizens) starve and suffer. Mubarak is fine with imprisoning and torturing any individuals he sees as bothersome. No formal charges are needed. Mubarak has had 30 years of "emergency rule," wherein all rights have been oppressed and all dissent squashed. Mubarak is nothing short of evil. People will die because they have nothing to live for now.

[RichardinJax]

08:38 PM on 01/30/2011

Good guy vs Bad guy is an Americanism..this is Egypt. The good here is the will of the Egyptian people (similar to the colonialists of the USA in the 1700's) and the bad are those that will not let them have it.
They have a King George..his name is Mubarak.

[LCDTV]

10:07 AM on 01/30/2011

im always amazed watching masses of people protesting a complete change of government. they are demanding more rights and more say in their governess. i have to admit im completely ignorant about egypt before the protest and what is going on now.

[FosterMom]

10:16 AM on 01/30/2011

A quick crash course in Egyptian politics is relatively easy. The main points are that Mubarak has governed under "emergency rule" for all but 18 months of his 30 year rule. Under such "law," he can (and has) imprisoned thousands for so much as posting something vaguely liberal (what we would consider democratic) on a blog. He condones (if not encourages) torture against prisoners who have no formal charges against them. He receives $1.3 billion in U.S. aid annually, yet PhD holding citizens can't find a job, can't feed their families, can't voice their grievances. All while Mubarak lives like a king.

These protests were a long time coming. People are willing to die in the hopes that, perhaps someday, they or their countrymen will have something to live for.

[nb693]

10:19 AM on 01/30/2011

FYI
1) Egyptians have been suffering under a brutal dictatorship for more than 30 years.

2) Uncle Sam (the US) has been supporting the dictator until now the very end. All at the same time claiming to be the champion of freedom throughout the world !

3) It is not the first or the last time the US supports oppressive, brutal regimes and the dictators in charge.

Wake up America!
The American government(s) do not espouse to American values.

[RichardinJax]

09:03 PM on 01/30/2011

FYI..you make a bit of an overstatement. The dictatorship in Egypt is not "brutal" it is indifferent and aloof. It has done little to improve the lives of its people but it does not deploy death squads like a brutal dictatorship would do. Its indifference to the economic suffering of its people is the core issue here but they are free to practice the religion of their choice and to make a stab in their rigged economic system.
The world does not exist though an American lens..take if from your eyes and you will be amazed at what you see.